MA 378 - Number Theory
- Credit Hours: 4R-0L-4C
- Term Available: S
- Graduate Studies Eligible: No
- Prerequisites: consent of instructor
- Corequisites: None
Divisibility, congruences, prime numbers, factorization algorithms, RSA encryption, solutions of equations in integers, quadratic residues, reciprocity, generating functions, multiplicative and other important functions of elementary number theory. Mathematical conjecture and proof, mathematical induction.